Top Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Provide technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, a managed single-tenant SaaS platform. Lead architecture and transformation across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, automation, and platform integrations. Identify systemic reliability and scalability risks, establish reusable platform patterns, strengthen service ownership, and guide cross-team technical decisions. Mentor senior engineers and advance engineering excellence across the organization.

Leads and scales a data engineering team of 8+ engineers, owning data strategy, platform modernization, architecture, reliability, and engineering standards. Partners with product, analytics, and commercial teams to deliver scalable, secure, high-quality data solutions. Responsibilities include coaching, mentoring, roadmap ownership, stakeholder management, performance measurement, and representing data engineering with senior leadership. The role requires technical credibility across cloud platforms, data warehouses, orchestration, modeling, pipelines, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.

Graduate engineers complete a three-month bootcamp followed by nine months on live banking projects. They gain experience across the engineering lifecycle, including coding, testing, deployment, Agile practices, data, AI-assisted tools, and modern engineering methods. The programme provides mentoring, certifications, and global collaboration opportunities, with support toward a permanent engineering role after successful completion.

Eight-week Engineering internship involving real business projects, Scrum ceremonies, agile and AI-assisted engineering practices, networking, and learning across banking technology functions. Interns contribute to engineering work, develop technical and problem-solving skills, collaborate with experts, and may progress to the graduate programme. The role requires a penultimate-year STEM student targeting a 2:1, with strong communication, analytical, data, experimentation, adaptability, and learning abilities.

Lead and develop a team of 6–10 Quality Engineers while improving quality, release, and engineering practices across product teams. The role involves coaching, performance management, capacity planning, risk-based quality decisions, CI/CD and automation improvements, release readiness, incident learning, and responsible adoption of AI in quality workflows. The manager will lead cross-team improvements, coordinate with Principal Quality Engineers, and deputize for the Head of Quality Engineering.

Own Perk’s global go-to-market engineering strategy, architecture, tooling, automation roadmap, and commercial outcomes. Build production workflows in Clay, Salesforce, and code; automate prospecting, selling, account management, and AI-assisted processes; establish engineering standards; and lead a senior distributed team. Partner with revenue leaders to translate pipeline and productivity problems into scalable technical solutions with measurable impact.

Manages engineering teams of up to 10 people, guiding technical and product vision, talent development, performance, delivery, and operational excellence. Partners with clients, product managers, and client success teams to deliver platform solutions and drive technical roadmaps. Requires engineering management experience, strong communication, Agile and lean development knowledge, and familiarity with modern technologies including Kafka. The role involves 4–6 business trips annually and hybrid office work three days per week.

Leads technical development and business growth for AECOM’s Ground Engineering team. Responsibilities include reviewing geotechnical data, analyses, and design calculations; advising clients through project stages; overseeing project schedules, budgets, and delivery; leading multidisciplinary work; developing client relationships; supporting tenders; and mentoring junior engineers. Requires chartered status, civil engineering or geology qualifications, strong UK ground-condition knowledge, geotechnical design expertise, stakeholder management, networking, and team leadership.

Leads the engineering operations capability across quality engineering, environment management, release readiness, engineering assurance, risk controls, resilience, and continuous improvement. Owns engineering standards and quality frameworks, drives automation and DevSecOps adoption, oversees partner and outsource-provider performance, and uses metrics and risk insights to improve delivery confidence. The role requires senior stakeholder influence and strong engineering leadership within a complex, regulated environment.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for a regulated digital-asset custody platform. Own hiring, org design, engineering operations (on-call, incidents, release hygiene), delivery against roadmaps, audit and regulator readiness (SOC 2, SAMA, ISO 27001), and cross-functional alignment. Amplify an existing small, specialized team to meet regulatory and institutional requirements while preserving culture and retention.

Lead and grow a compiler, kernel, and runtime engineering team responsible for accelerator bring-up across the Modular stack. Drive technical direction, architecture, coding, roadmap delivery, vendor partnerships, SOWs, milestones, cross-team dependencies, hiring, and production-quality model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.

Lead Salesforce and Node.js architecture, scalability, performance, security, and engineering excellence for enterprise applications. Manage and mentor a team of 10–15 engineers, set goals, conduct one-on-ones, hire talent, remove blockers, and partner with Product and Engineering leadership. Drive technical direction, integrations, deployment processes, developer experience, and reliable roadmap delivery across Salesforce and AWS-based services.

Build the platform, tooling, workflows, guardrails, and metrics needed for safe, measurable agentic software development. Integrate autonomous coding agents with Linear, GitHub, CI, testing, and code review processes. Improve monorepo readiness, create isolated execution environments, establish benchmarks and adoption metrics, and partner cross-functionally with Platform, Security, AI, Architecture, and engineering teams.

Serve as a pre-sales Solutions Engineer for Atlassian’s Emerging Markets team, focusing on enterprise customers in Africa. Partner with sales teams and channel partners to discover business and technical needs, map challenges to Atlassian solutions, identify expansion opportunities, and lead customized value-based demonstrations. Build customer and sales partnerships, guide technical buying decisions, document product feedback and competitive intelligence, and continuously develop product and sales-process expertise.

16-month graduate programme supporting renewable energy projects across wind, solar PV, battery storage and private wire systems. Responsibilities include feasibility studies, design development, technical assessments, problem-solving, documentation review, and project collaboration from development through commissioning. The role includes engineering team rotations, site-based work, possible travel or relocation, and development toward professional chartership.

Leads strategic communications and media engagement for engineering and science activities, developing multi-channel campaigns and content to enhance the university’s global reputation. Builds relationships with media, academics, policymakers, funders, and external partners; identifies news opportunities; supports media training and crisis communications; evaluates audience and campaign performance; manages communications materials, suppliers, and potentially staff; and contributes to press office, leadership, and on-call activities.

Administer and support large-scale cloud and on-premises monitoring deployments across multiple providers. Maintain performance, availability, capacity, permissions, upgrades, and audit compliance. Integrate applications and infrastructure with enterprise monitoring instrumentation, document operational processes, collaborate with technical teams, and mentor colleagues on observability practices. The role requires expertise in monitoring platforms, application performance monitoring, synthetics, end-user experience, infrastructure monitoring, distributed tracing, cloud services, scripting, SQL, and multiple operating systems.

Lead the Algorithms engineering team responsible for RoomPriceGenie’s pricing, forecasting, and data pipeline systems. Own delivery, reliability, technical quality, hiring, performance management, and team development. Partner with Product to shape priorities, validate outcomes through backtesting and quality metrics, and drive engineering improvements across the organization. Provide architectural guidance, design and code reviews, and occasional hands-on support while building a high-performing, accountable team.

Designs, implements, and refines threat detection and response use cases aligned with MITRE ATT&CK and the Cyber Kill Chain. Collaborates with threat intelligence, incident response, forensics, and security operations teams; analyzes attack patterns; participates in red-team and penetration-testing exercises; develops security metrics and management reports; and leads junior analysts as needed. The role requires expertise in security monitoring, incident response, forensics, network and host controls, cloud security, and multiple forensic and SIEM tools.

Leads a 25+ person organization of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and analytics engineers across Identity and Financial Crime. Owns data quality, governance, lineage, observability, fraud and financial-crime models, production performance, monitoring, retraining, and domain data products. Partners with engineering, product, risk, compliance, legal, and central data teams; influences upstream teams, develops managers and senior ICs, handles incidents, and scales hiring and technical strategy.

Leads an engineering team responsible for delivering and scaling Olo’s restaurant technology platform. Manages engineering projects, technical debt, product roadmaps, system quality, performance, and major technical escalations. The role includes hiring, mentoring, performance management, process improvement, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring reliable, scalable solutions aligned with business objectives.

Analyze and resolve software bugs and security vulnerabilities across complex codebases. Develop and refactor backend applications, conduct penetration testing and security audits, optimize performance, apply secure development practices, document findings, and provide cybersecurity and engineering insights for AI training datasets.

Build and operate full-stack features for elastic.co using React, TypeScript, and backend services. Own deployment pipelines, performance monitoring, observability, security vulnerability remediation, production troubleshooting, code reviews, and on-call support in a globally distributed team.

Leads a remote engineering team building scalable Python and Golang microservices for Canonical’s software distribution marketplaces. Responsibilities include mentoring and developing engineers, managing delivery and expectations, shaping technical strategy and roadmaps, reviewing code, guiding architecture, maintaining engineering quality, and collaborating with product managers, architects, other teams, open-source contributors, and commercial partners.

Leads UK engineering operations, managing engineering managers and software developers responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and supporting mission-critical software products. Oversees architecture, Scrum practices, quality assurance, performance monitoring, production issue resolution, software releases, project delivery, resource prioritization, hiring, and team performance. Partners with project managers and internal stakeholders to integrate technology, improve application effectiveness, and maintain product uptime.